Communications report of Special Procedures – Communications sent and replies received (March – July 2014) – HRC 27th session – HRC report (excerpts)

06/05/2014

ISR 1/2014

Israel

OPT; Torture;

Alleged ill-treatment and torture of three Palestinian children by Israeli Security Forces (ISF). According to the information received, three Palestinian children, X, Y and Z (all below the age of 18) were arrested by ISF in separate incidents on 19 April, 12 September and 7 November 2013 in the West Bank. All three children were accused of throwing stones and/or Molotov cocktails. During their detention at Beit Hamoshail (an Israeli military camp), Huwwara Interrogation and Detention Centre (south of Nablus) and Ari’el police station respectively, they were subjected to torture and ill-treatment, including solitary confinement, repeated beatings and being used as a human shield by ISF during confrontations with stone throwing youth. An Israeli soldier allegedly also extinguished a cigarette on the lips of one of the children. Furthermore, lawyers were not present during the interrogation of the children and none of them were informed of their rights. X was released after 21 days in Ofer military prison. Y and Z remain detained in Megiddo prison.

09/05/2014

JAL

Freedom of

expression;

Freedom of

peaceful assembly

and of association;

Human rights

defenders; OPT;

Alleged ill-treatment and torture of three Palestinian children by Israeli Security Forces (ISF). According to the information received, three Palestinian children, X, Y and Z (all below the age of 18) were arrested by ISF in separate incidents on 19 April, 12 September and 7 November 2013 in the West Bank. All three children were accused of throwing stones and/or Molotov cocktails. During their detention at Beit

Hamoshail (an Israeli military camp), Huwwara Interrogation and Detention Centre (south of Nablus) and Ari’el police station respectively, they were subjected to torture and ill-treatment, including solitary confinement, repeated beatings and being used as a human shield by ISF during confrontations with stone throwing youth. An Israeli soldier allegedly also extinguished a cigarette on the lips of one of the children. Furthermore, lawyers were not present during the interrogation of the children and none of them were informed of their rights. X was released after 21 days in Ofer military prison. Y and Z remain detained in Megiddo prison.

28/05/2014

JUA

Freedom of

expression;

Freedom of

peaceful assembly

and of association;

Human rights

defenders; OPT;

Summary

executions;

Alleged ill-treatment and torture of three Palestinian children by Israeli Security Forces (ISF). According to the information received, three Palestinian children, X, Y and Z (all below the age of 18) were arrested by ISF in separate incidents on 19 April, 12 September and 7 November 2013 in the West Bank. All three children were accused of throwing stones and/or Molotov cocktails. During their detention at Beit

Hamoshail (an Israeli military camp), Huwwara Interrogation and Detention Centre (south of Nablus) and Ari’el police station respectively, they were subjected to torture and ill-treatment, including solitary confinement, repeated beatings and being used as a human shield by ISF during confrontations with stone throwing youth. An Israeli soldier allegedly also extinguished a cigarette on the lips of one of the children. Furthermore, lawyers were not present during the interrogation of the children and none of them were informed of their rights. X was released after 21 days in Ofer military prison. Y and Z remain detained in Megiddo prison.